Now, from time to time you might hear the term “nuclear bomb” used, while other times you may hear the term “atomic bomb”. What is the difference? Any bomb that uses tiny reactions inside the nucleus of a microscopic atom is, by definition, a “nuclear bomb”. However, the first nuclear bombs were much simpler than today’s bombs, which use multiple steps to produce their large explosions. The firs

This condensed Smashwords version of Prayers in Stone provides an overview of about 200 of Nagasaki's A-bomb heritage sites. The entries are organized into a series of tours for the convenience of tourists actually visiting the city, and to give the general reader a sense of the layout and the proximity to the hypocenter.

The most comprehensive single ebook available on nuclear weapons, with three crucial government documents: Nuclear Matters: A Practical Guide to American Nuclear Weapons; 2010 Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation; The Effects of Nuclear Weapons - Glasstone and Dolan Authoritative Military Reference on Atomic Explosions.

For the first time in e-book format, here is the widely-acclaimed definitive standard reference book on nuclear weapons: the final, third edition of the authoritative Department of Defense text compiled by Samuel Glasstone and Philip Dolan. Every aspect of nuclear explosions is fully detailed - the blast, radioactivity, fallout, EMP, biological damage to people, plants, and animals, and more.

The National Ignition Facility, the world s largest laser system housed in a ten-story building at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the subject of this guide. NIF's 192 lasers can deliver 60 times more energy than any previous laser system. NIF will focus laser energy on a tiny target, creating conditions similar to those that exist only in the cores of stars and hydrogen bombs.

The Russians are at the gates of Berlin. The war is won. Or is it? Even as the Red Army deals Nazi Germany its death blow, Hauptmann Träger, reluctant hero of the Reich, is working his way to the heart of Moscow with the last of Germany’s wonder weapons. The Last Blitzkrieg is a fast-paced thriller woven around real people and actual historical events sometimes more surprising than fiction.